This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iwlwifi: fix skb usage after free
to the 2.6.38-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
iwlwifi-fix-skb-usage-after-free.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From b25026981aecde3685dd0e45ad980fff9f528daa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:57:14 +0200
Subject: iwlwifi: fix skb usage after free
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
commit b25026981aecde3685dd0e45ad980fff9f528daa upstream.
Since
commit a120e912eb51e347f36c71b60a1d13af74d30e83
Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Feb 19 15:47:33 2010 -0800
iwlwifi: sanity check before counting number of tfds can be free
we use skb->data after calling ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(), which
could free skb instantly.
On current kernels I do not observe practical problems related with
bug, but on 2.6.35.y it cause random system hangs when stressing
wireless link.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c
@@ -1207,12 +1207,16 @@ int iwlagn_tx_queue_reclaim(struct iwl_p
q->read_ptr = iwl_queue_inc_wrap(q->read_ptr, q->n_bd)) {
tx_info = &txq->txb[txq->q.read_ptr];
- iwlagn_tx_status(priv, tx_info,
- txq_id >= IWLAGN_FIRST_AMPDU_QUEUE);
+
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(tx_info->skb == NULL))
+ continue;
hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)tx_info->skb->data;
- if (hdr && ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control))
+ if (ieee80211_is_data_qos(hdr->frame_control))
nfreed++;
+
+ iwlagn_tx_status(priv, tx_info,
+ txq_id >= IWLAGN_FIRST_AMPDU_QUEUE);
tx_info->skb = NULL;
if (priv->cfg->ops->lib->txq_inval_byte_cnt_tbl)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.38/iwlagn-fix-received-ba-when-not-expected.patch
queue-2.6.38/iwlwifi-fix-skb-usage-after-free.patch
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